Senior Insights & Analytics Specialist

Roche Holding AG; Welwyn; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Roche Products Ltd. in Welwyn Garden City, UK, invites an experienced Senior Insights & Analytics Specialist to translate resourcing and performance data into strategic narratives for senior leadership. You will consolidate information across PDD, build leadership-ready analyses, and shape governance discussions.

You will collaborate with the Head of Resourcing & Metrics, monitor trends between governance cycles, and develop forward-looking scenarios to anticipate capacity and resource needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Business Administration, Data & Analytics, Human Resources, Life Sciences, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred.
• You bring a minimum of 5 years of experience in analytics, strategy, business operations, workforce planning, consulting, or a related field.
• You have a proven ability to synthesize complex information from multiple sources and translate it into concise, actionable insights for senior leadership.
• You demonstrate strong analytical judgment and curiosity, with the ability to move beyond describing data to identify underlying drivers.

Responsibilities

• You lead the end-to-end consolidation, analysis, and development of content for PDD’s Resourcing Governance, a recurring senior leadership forum bringing together the SVP, PDD Leadership Team, and functional resourcing leaders
• You partner with the Head of Resourcing & Metrics to shape the agenda and storyline for Resourcing Governance, identifying the most important questions, insights, trade-offs, and decisions for leadership consideration
• You integrate resourcing, workforce, financial, sourcing, portfolio, and operational information from across PDD into a coherent view of organizational capacity, demand, and emerging needs
• You move beyond reporting what the data shows to explain why it matters, identifying underlying drivers, implications, risks, opportunities, and potential areas for course correction
• You develop leadership‑ready analyses and presentations that clearly communicate key findings, trends, scenarios, and recommendations to senior audiences
• You continuously monitor key resourcing and metrics data between governance cycles, proactively identifying material changes, anomalies, risks, or opportunities and escalating issues when leadership attention or action may be required
• You develop forward‑looking analyses and scenarios that help anticipate future workforce, capacity, sourcing, and resource needs
• You work closely with R&M Operations & Delivery to ensure analyses are based on accurate, validated, and trusted source information, while providing feedback on emerging analytical and data needs
• You partner with Data & Analytics Infrastructure colleagues to identify opportunities to leverage dashboards, automation, AI, and advanced analytics to improve insight generation and decision support
• You support ongoing Resourcing & Metrics operational priorities as needed, contributing flexibly across workforce planning, metrics, sourcing, vendor, financial, and planning activities
• You help establish and evolve a competitive intelligence capability for Resourcing & Metrics, monitoring relevant external clinical developments across the pharmaceutical industry and other leading organizations
• You continuously improve the analytical questions, metrics, and approaches used by the team, ensuring Resourcing & Metrics evolves from primarily reporting information toward providing proactive strategic insight

Skills

Synthesis of data

Executive storytelling

Executive communication

Analytical judgment

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Job description

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

Senior Insights & Analytics Specialist

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.

This role is based in Business Strategy & Operations (BSO), which serves as the strategic backbone and operational enabler for Product Development Data Sciences (PDD). The function ensures organizational excellence through robust quality frameworks, optimized resourcing, and aligned strategic execution. BSO brings together cross-functional capabilities across quality and compliance, workforce planning, and strategic operations to empower leaders and teams to deliver with focus, transparency, and accountability. By connecting enterprise priorities with operational realities, BSO drives consistency, clarity, and coordinated progress across PDD and the broader development organization.

The Opportunity:

The Senior Insights & Analytics Specialist within the Resourcing & Metrics team plays a critical role in translating PDD’s resourcing, workforce, financial, and operational data into actionable insights for senior leadership. Serving as the primary orchestrator of insights for PDD’s Resourcing Governance, this role brings together information from across functions, identifies the most important trends and implications, and develops clear leadership narratives that support forward-looking resource decisions.

• You lead the end-to-end consolidation, analysis, and development of content for PDD’s Resourcing Governance, a recurring senior leadership forum bringing together the SVP, PDD Leadership Team, and functional resourcing leaders
• You partner with the Head of Resourcing & Metrics to shape the agenda and storyline for Resourcing Governance, identifying the most important questions, insights, trade-offs, and decisions for leadership consideration
• You integrate resourcing, workforce, financial, sourcing, portfolio, and operational information from across PDD into a coherent view of organizational capacity, demand, and emerging needs
• You move beyond reporting what the data shows to explain why it matters, identifying underlying drivers, implications, risks, opportunities, and potential areas for course correction
• You develop leadership‑ready analyses and presentations that clearly communicate key findings, trends, scenarios, and recommendations to senior audiences
• You continuously monitor key resourcing and metrics data between governance cycles, proactively identifying material changes, anomalies, risks, or opportunities and escalating issues when leadership attention or action may be required
• You develop forward‑looking analyses and scenarios that help anticipate future workforce, capacity, sourcing, and resource needs
• You work closely with R&M Operations & Delivery to ensure analyses are based on accurate, validated, and trusted source information, while providing feedback on emerging analytical and data needs
• You partner with Data & Analytics Infrastructure colleagues to identify opportunities to leverage dashboards, automation, AI, and advanced analytics to improve insight generation and decision support
• You support ongoing Resourcing & Metrics operational priorities as needed, contributing flexibly across workforce planning, metrics, sourcing, vendor, financial, and planning activities
• You help establish and evolve a competitive intelligence capability for Resourcing & Metrics, monitoring relevant external clinical developments across the pharmaceutical industry and other leading organizations
• You continuously improve the analytical questions, metrics, and approaches used by the team, ensuring Resourcing & Metrics evolves from primarily reporting information toward providing proactive strategic insight

Who you are:

• You hold a Bachelor’s in Business Administration, Data & Analytics, Human Resources, Life Sciences, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred
• You bring a minimum of 5 years of experience in analytics, strategy, business operations, workforce planning, consulting, or a related field
• You have a proven ability to synthesize complex information from multiple sources and translate it into concise, actionable insights for senior leadership
• You demonstrate strong analytical judgment and curiosity, with the ability to move beyond describing data to identify underlying drivers
• You think proactively and can anticipate emerging trends, risks, and decision points rather than waiting for issues to become visible through established reporting
• You have excellent storytelling and executive communication skills
• You demonstrate independent thinking and sound judgment, including the willingness to challenge assumptions and surface issues that may require leadership attention
• You are comfortable working with enterprise analytics and visualization platforms
• You demonstrate respect for cultural differences and work effectively across a global and highly matrixed organization
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills and are able to explain complex analytical concepts in clear, accessible language

Preferred:

• Experience in a leading management consulting firm preferred, but not required
• Experience developing executive‑level presentations, insights, recommendations, or decision‑support materials for senior leadership
• Experience supporting senior governance forums, leadership teams, business reviews, workforce reviews, or similar recurring executive decision‑making processes
• Experience in strategic workforce planning, capacity planning, resource allocation, organizational analytics, or financial planning
• Experience conducting scenario analysis, forecasting, predictive analytics, or other forward‑looking analytical work
• Experience conducting competitive intelligence, external benchmarking, market research, or industry trend analysis
• Experience leveraging AI, advanced analytics, or automation to accelerate analysis, identify patterns, or generate new insights

Location

• This can be located in our Welwyn Garden City, UK; Boston, MA, US; or Mississauga, ON, CA offices
• Relocation Assistance is not available

Where pay transparency applies, details are provided based on the primary posting location. For this role, the primary location is Welwyn. If you are interested in additional locations where the role may be available, we will provide the relevant compensation details later in the hiring process.

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life‑changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees, and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of Roche Products Ltd. At Roche Products we believe diversity drives innovation and we are committed to building a diverse and flexible working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion or belief, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability or age. We recognise the importance of flexible working and will review all applicants’ requests with care. At Roche difference is valued and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer where you are encouraged to bring your whole self to work.